Hi,

On 20/11/22 05:09, Lewis wrote:

On 11/21/20 06:28 pm, Gregg Young wrote:

[ticket 79]

The gist of it is that we have a properties notebook with four tabs:

Popup | Taskbar | Miscellaneous | About

In the help, we refer to the "Taskbar" as the standalone lSwitcher bar, and
"Widget" as the XCenter widget. The properties tab includes settings for both
the Taskbar and the Widget, so the label is misleading (implying only Taskbar
settings on those pages).  In fact, page 2 of that tab includes Mouse actions,
and page 3 has our Exclude filters. Clearly, the label "Taskbar" is
inappropriate.

I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it. I admittedly use the widget very little (mostly some testing), but I always thought of that tab as "Taskbar - whether standalone or widget", so no big deal for me.

The Mouse action page maybe should be #3, so page #2 would be "Filters" for both the PM popup and whatever taskbar is in use, but Mouse actions for the taskbars belong in each taskbar tab IMHO -- don't they apply to the taskbar/widget only, and not the popup?

My suggestion is to rename this tab "List" and to change the title of the
first page from "General" to "Appearance"

I find "List" rather unintuitive. Couldn't we have the tab dynamically named Taskbar/Widget depending on which one is used, just like some settings are enabled or disabled (grayed out)?

and splitting the page into two areas:

Common

    3D look
    Group items
    Icons only
    Maximum button width
    Auto hide delay

Taskbar

    Enable
    Auto hide
    Allow resizing
    Auto resize
    Flat buttons
    Top of screen
    Bottom of screen
    Reduce desktop workarea

I agree this would make clearer which settings apply to what taskbar. However, in the same vein, perhaps the "TaskBar" group could only appear in the dialog for the taskbar, and be absent from the dialog for the widget, instead of just grayed out.

What is not mentioned in the ticket is that it would be more appropriate to
reorder the tabs:

List | Popup | Miscellaneous | About

Why? The Popup is always active, while the taskbar can be disabled, like the widget -- it won't be active unless you add it to some XCenter.

Finally, and also not mentioned in the ticket, is that tabs with only a single
page should not say "Page 1 of 1". In most notebooks, the page number is omitted.

True.

This is all fit and finish stuff, of course, aside from the textual changes.

Also true.